What's Trending on CoinMarketCap and DexScreener, Sorted by Age: New Tokens, Days-Old Tokens and Established Names

Open DexScreener's trending tab and CoinMarketCap's most-searched list on the same morning and they barely overlap. One is dominated by tokens that did not exist yesterday; the other mostly lists coins that have been around for years. We read both on Oct. 23, 2026 and sorted what we found by age: brand new, days old, months old and long established. We also looked for the "regulars," tokens that keep returning to trending lists, and the honest finding there is that one snapshot can barely see them.

Brand new: hours old, and most of the list

The youngest tier is where DexScreener's trending view lives. Of 50 entries across its 1-hour, 6-hour and 24-hour views, 21 were pairs under a day old, and several were only minutes or hours old at the time we read them: SCAT, Kimchi (a v4 pool) and mekiba showed ages under 30 minutes in the 1-hour view; the top-ranked token in the 6-hour view, Aura Final Bull (KIMCHIBULL on Solana), was 12 hours old and showed a 6-hour gain of about 7,289% on roughly $191,000 in liquidity, per DexScreener. In the 24-hour view, startupSI showed a gain of about 9,624% at 17 hours old, and MINTER, a day old, showed a decline of about 95.6%.

Those swings are the point. A token with a few hours of history and a modest liquidity pool can post a four-figure percentage move on very little money, in either direction, and the trending score rewards that activity. The same pages that surface a +9,624% gain also surface a -95% loss. If you have read Anatomy of a Pump, this is the early-hours stage in practice.

Days old: the middle of the list

Fourteen entries were four to fifteen days old, and nine more were one to three days old. This tier mostly holds tokens that survived their first day and are still drawing volume: Infinite Money Glitch (GLITCH) at five days in the 6-hour view, SI276 at seven and twelve days in two different views, and Dacity, TORCH and CBUCKS at eight to twelve days in the 24-hour view. Whether that reflects durable interest or a slower-moving version of the same cycle can't be told from a snapshot.

The age DexScreener displays is for the trading pair, not necessarily the token. A token can launch on one pool and later move to another, and a pair listed on a new version of a DEX can look younger than the project behind it. Treat the age column as a minimum.

Months to years: the older minority

Only six of the 50 entries were older than a month: GATO and MISTAKE at about a month, SANTAHOOD at three months, and Pons, HEX and a second Pons pair. Pons stood out on size: one pair in the 24-hour view (three months old, about $175.4 million in market capitalization per DexScreener) and one in the 1-hour view (two months old, about $229.1 million). The oldest entry was HEX on PulseChain, about three years old, which appeared in the 1-hour view with a decline of about 63.5% and a market capitalization near $45 million. That makes HEX the one genuinely long-lived name on the DexScreener trending lists we read, and it was trending on a drop rather than a rally.

The CoinMarketCap side: mostly older names

CoinMarketCap's own trending page is rendered by JavaScript and returned blank when we tried to read it. The comparable public data we could read is its top-search feed, which ranks the coins people are searching for most. That is a proxy for CMC's trending list, not the same ranking (see what 'trending' means on each platform), and it carries no age field, so the table below shows the age evidence CMC's pages give for each entry.

Source: CoinMarketCap top-search feed and individual CMC pages, read Oct. 23, 2026. Age evidence is what the pages show, not a confirmed launch date.

Four of the ten are clearly long-lived (Gitcoin, Dash, Tether Gold and Sleepless AI, whose all-time high dates to March 2024). Three are mid-age: Bitlayer was launched in May 2025 and was the top search with a 24-hour gain of about 40.9%, though CMC's page shows no news explaining it; Acurast and KernelDAO both have all-time highs in 2025 or early 2026. Three are tokenized stocks or funds, led by TSMC's tokenized bStocks token, which CMC shows with an all-time high on Oct. 6, 2026 and a low on July 29, 2026. CMC's IDs are assigned in sequence, so the high IDs on the two Ondo tokenized products suggest relatively recent listings, but that is our inference, not a date CMC states. For the broader tokenized-stock story, see Binance's tokenized JPMorgan and Eli Lilly listings and the OKX-ICE issuer objections.

The regulars: what one snapshot can and can't show

A "regular" is a token that keeps appearing on trending lists over days or weeks. We have one reading, so we can't identify them. What we can see are weak repeat signals within the single snapshot: Pons appeared in two time windows on two different pairs; SI276 appeared in two views at different pair ages; and a cluster of Kimchi-themed tokens (KIMCHIBULL, Aura Final Boss Kimchi and a Kimchi v4 pool) showed up across two windows, which looks like a theme trending rather than one token. Two tokens named FTR also appeared. Appearing twice in an hour is a much lower bar than staying on a list for a week.

Paid promotion muddies this further. DexScreener also publishes a boosts list, where projects pay for visibility. Of its 30 top entries when we read it, 23 were on Solana, five on Robinhood Chain and two on BNB Chain; the top entry had 500 boosts and most had 100 or fewer. At least four tokens, including GATO, Pepper the Raccoon and Frens, appeared in both the organic trending lists and the boosts list. A token that looks like a regular may simply be a regular advertiser. We read the boosts as a separate signal and did not count them toward the age tallies above.

To answer the regulars question properly, you need a time series: the same top 30 logged every few hours for a week or two. That is the follow-up we would want to run; a single morning can't show persistence.

How we read the lists, and the limits

We read DexScreener's trending pages sorted by trending score for the 1-hour, 6-hour and 24-hour windows (top 10, 20 and 20 entries respectively, 50 in total), its top-boosts list, and CoinMarketCap's top-search feed, which was last updated around 05:45 UTC. We left out two tokens named for what appear to be private individuals. Percentage changes and market capitalizations are DexScreener's own figures at the time of reading and move quickly; some are computed on very small liquidity. CoinGecko and GeckoTerminal block automated access, so neither is included. Nothing here is a screen for safety: a token being old does not make it sound, and being new does not make it a scam, but the newest tokens carry the least information. For a framework on checking a launch yourself, see How to Spot the Next Pepe, and for how rank jumps can mislead, Crypto Trading Signals: Rank Jumps and FDV.

Fast answers

Which trending tokens are brand new?

On Oct. 23, 2026, 21 of the 50 entries we read across DexScreener's 1-hour, 6-hour and 24-hour trending views were trading pairs under 24 hours old, and a few were under 30 minutes old. DexScreener shows pair age, which can be younger than the token itself.

Which trending tokens have been around a while?

On DexScreener, only six of 50 entries were older than one month; the oldest was HEX on PulseChain at about three years. On CoinMarketCap's top-search feed, Gitcoin (2021), Dash, Tether Gold and Sleepless AI (all-time high March 2024) are clearly long-lived.

Which tokens are regulars on the trending lists?

One snapshot can't show that. We saw weak repeat signals, such as Pons in two time windows and a Kimchi-themed cluster across two, but identifying regulars requires logging the lists repeatedly over days or weeks.

Is CoinMarketCap's top-search list the same as its trending list?

No. CMC's trending page didn't render for us, so we used its public top-search feed, which ranks the most-searched coins. It is a proxy for attention, not the same ranking, and it doesn't include token age.

Does a token trending on DexScreener mean it's safe or a good buy?

No. Trending lists reflect activity, and on DexScreener part of the visibility comes from paid boosts. Very new tokens often have thin liquidity and extreme price swings in both directions. This is informational only and not financial advice.

Sources: DexScreener trending pages (1h, 6h, 24h) and top-boosts list; CoinMarketCap top-search feed and coin pages; read Oct. 23, 2026. PumpReport's age grouping and tallies.